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aha cashing on competition going off? so there is now blogger and wordpress tumblr is more of a reblogging thing mostly photoblog? oh now i see how many accounts and blogs of mine would go if they shut it down! posterous going! realized it just now how it would affect me! oh! but then you guys don’t have free uploading of music! do you? yeah yeah space upgrades!

Hehe, good timing for bringing in new people. I still don’t understand why people use other platform (unless they require extensive editing option) rather than WordPress.com ignoring its beautiful themes and amazing features — all for free.

Looks like a great new addition to the many tools that make WordPress the best all-around web hosting site! Thanks for the heads up and all of the new, innovative additions you keep making for us here!

At present, you can still get to posterous.com URLs too. And many people may stick with Posterous. Presumably, if Twitter decides to shut the service down, both posterous.com and custom domain blogs will go away. We’re just trying to make sure people who’re nervous about the change know we’re ready to welcome them. 🙂

I think there’s no need to run from Posterous so far, Posterous is still working good and Twitter haven’t stated anything about shutting down, I keep a blog on wordpress, and a lighter blog on Posterous and I see no reason to shut down my posterous space to bring it into wordpress, at least not now.

There’s not been an announcement about Posterous shutting down, but it’s tempting to interpret the Posterous announcement that they’ll be working to help users figure out how to backup and export their blogs as a hint that a shut-down is on the horizon. It does sound like even if the service is to be shut down, Posterous/Twitter is going to be good to their users and help with a transition. So there’s probably no need for alarm or anything. We did want to make sure we were ready to embrace any users who did want to go ahead and migrate, though.

Posterous is another blogging service. If you don’t have a Posterous blog already, then you can just ignore this posting. If you do have one (it sounds like you don’t) and are nervous about Twitter’s purchase of the company (such purchases sometimes lead to shut-down of or drastic changes to the original service), then we wanted to make sure our users knew we had an importer that would help with migrating Posterous content to WordPress.com.

It’s a lil bit too late. I had deleted my posterous blog after copy-paste it to my blog. But anyway… this is a cool importer. May be you guys can help us about import-export from wordpress to blogspot also? There’s a problem with its size limitation 😦

It’s too bad for Posterous. Twitter hasn’t really done much for Tweetdeck since acquiring that service. They’ll essentially do what most other companies do in this situation is take what they like and let the service phase itself out. I’ve already transitioned my main sites off Posterous and have them backed up on WP.com. So thankful for the import feature, WordPress!

Damn. I just recently discovered posterous spaces as replacement for MobileMe Gallery. Their image posting feature is great and the ability to manage members and followers seemed quite simple. Well, seems I will have to try to set that up in WordPress now.